Hadith 137

e number of the ones killed from the army of the camel were sixteen thousand and seven hundred and ninety people, and they were thirty thousand, so the killing came upon more than half of them. And there were killed, from the companions of Ali-asws, one thousand and seventy men, and they were ten thousand. And Muhammad Bin Talha was well known as Al-Sajjad. He had come out along with his father, and had bequeathed to Ali-asws that he should not be killed by whoever it may be, if he-asws is victorious with him. And the slogan of the companions of Ali-asws was ‘Ha Meem [40: 1]’. Shureyh Bin Awfi Al-Ubeysi, from the companions of Ali-asws, met him, and stabbed him. He said, ‘Ha Meem [40: 1], and it preceded just as is said, ‘The humiliating sword’, and it came upon himself’. And Shureyh said this (poem), ‘And the shaggy one stood with the Verses of his Lord-azwj, little of harm in what the eyes saw a Muslim. His shirt was split by the middle of the spear and he fell immediately to the hands and the mouth, upon another thing, apart from that he hadn’t followed Ali-asws, and one who does not follow the truth, regrets. He mentioned Ha Meem [40: 1] to me, and the spear was in combat. Did he not recite Ha Meem [40: 1] before going ahead? ’
And Ali-asws came until he-asws paused to him and said: ‘This is a man killed by one who was righteous to his father’. And Malik Al-Ashtar had met Abdullah Bin Al-Zubeyr in the battle, and Abdullah had fallen to the ground, and Al-Ashtar was above him. He had called out, ‘Kill me and Malik! ’ But, no one from the companions of the camel had followed him to that, and had they known it was Al-Ashar, they would have killed him. Then Abdullah evaded his hands and fled. When the war had placed down its burdens and Ayesha entered Al-Basra, Ammar Bin Yasser entered to see her and with him was Malik Al-Ashtar. She said, ‘Who is with you, O Abu Al-Yaqzan? ’ He said, ‘Malik Al-Ashtar’. She said, ‘You did with Abdullah what you did? ’ He said, ‘Yes, and had he not been an old man and bent, I would have killed him, and the Muslims would have rested from him’. She said, ‘Or have you not heard words of the Prophet-saww that the Muslim should not be killed except either from kufr after Eman, or adultery after the chastity, or if he had killed a soul which Allah-azwj has Prohibited to kill? ’ He said, ‘O mother of the believers! We had fought him upon one of the three’’. [10]